Why the Chagos Islands are strategically vital to US and UK military operations

Wednesday, January 21st 2026 - 11:21 UTC

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The Chagos Archipelago is of major military significance as it hosts the strategically located Diego Garcia base. Read full article

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And here is what this pandering little article fails to inform: ” Most Chagossians now live in Mauritius, Seychelles, and the United Kingdom after the forcible removal by the British government in the late 1960s and early 1970s so that Diego Garcia, the island where most Chagossians lived, could serve as the location for a joint United Kingdom–United States military base. Today, no Chagossians are allowed to live on the island of Diego Garcia, nor anywhere in the Chagos Archipelago, despite many of the once-inhabited islands being over 160 kilometres (86 nmi) away from Diego Garcia. ” (Source: Wikipedia) That is what empires do and getting away with it encourages subsequent behavior such as the Greenland 'acquisition'.
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